If you're like me and prioritize gameplay over story, this game is definitely not for you. Even if you think "ok well since the story is so good, maybe I'll just put up with it", you're underestimating just how bad the gameplay is, the gameplay WILL break you. No story, no matter how great, is worth this. The gameplay in this is the antithesis of fun. It might be the worst game I've ever played. It has no respect for your time whatsoever. In fact it seems to go out of its way to be excruciatingly painful on purpose. And this is just the main story quests, after experiencing how god awful bad those quests are, I sure as hell didn't spend a second doing any side quests which I hear are just fetch quests anyway.
If anyone wants to defend it, I want you to sit through this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG46kAJ-DVA), all of this, no skipping. And then because you're having so much fun, I want you to sit through this again. This wasn't even at the start of this trailing mission and this only scratches the surface of just how outrageously timewastingly bad this gameplay is. If I tried listing all the moments of bad gameplay in this, I truly would be just listing the whole game.
Now I'm pretty stubborn, I painstakingly dragged myself through all of route A. The story is good, the soundtrack (for the most part) is amazing. I can not bring myself to replay any of it for the other routes. Better to just watch those endings on youtube. The main enemies, the shades, must be the worst character designs I've ever seen in a game. Just swirling masses of black and yellow. There's no personality to them, they're as boring as it gets both visually and behaviourally. Ain't no kid drawing a freaking shade.
I say all this when Automata is one of my all time favourite games, which is probably why I pushed so hard with this despite not enjoying it. Unfortunately the gameplay is so bad it broke me.
If anyone wants to defend it, I want you to sit through this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG46kAJ-DVA), all of this, no skipping. And then because you're having so much fun, I want you to sit through this again. This wasn't even at the start of this trailing mission and this only scratches the surface of just how outrageously timewastingly bad this gameplay is. If I tried listing all the moments of bad gameplay in this, I truly would be just listing the whole game.
Now I'm pretty stubborn, I painstakingly dragged myself through all of route A. The story is good, the soundtrack (for the most part) is amazing. I can not bring myself to replay any of it for the other routes. Better to just watch those endings on youtube. The main enemies, the shades, must be the worst character designs I've ever seen in a game. Just swirling masses of black and yellow. There's no personality to them, they're as boring as it gets both visually and behaviourally. Ain't no kid drawing a freaking shade.
I say all this when Automata is one of my all time favourite games, which is probably why I pushed so hard with this despite not enjoying it. Unfortunately the gameplay is so bad it broke me.